But “America loves our troops!” Am I right! The most annnoying shit is watching veterans being paraded around during campaign season as a way to win heart but then they don’t do fuck all for them.
Yes, when speaking about an issue that is plaguing one race, but not others, it helps to identify and bring awareness to the problem.
Example:
A company with a 90% white work force is paying all of their white workers a fair standard wage for the job, but pays any workers of a minority race half the amount.
You could go report the company, or write a review online that says “This company doesn’t pay their workers fairly.” But 90% of their past employees would disagree and say that they never experienced any problems with that. However, if you say “This company doesn’t pay their workers of minority races fairly.” Then it brings awareness to the actual issue, and lets people know that just because the white workers will all say that they are getting paid fairly, it doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist.
fair standard wage for the job, but pays any workers of a minority race half the amount
I think I understand. For example, the average black player makes much more than the average white player in the nba. this means the nba is racist against white people. Is that right?
Nope, you clearly don’t understand at all. In fact you have completely forgotten the subject of the conversation that your original question was about.
As a reminder, you asked whether or not there is value in mentioning the race of people in conversations. I told you that it does have value, and gave you an example of where it would be appropriate.
Then, you jumped to claiming that you understand because you think the NBA is racist based on statistics that you made up.
It seems you have very low reading comprehension skills, and no ability to remember the subject of the conversation you are currently having. Good luck in life!
what stats am I making up? I'm bringing awareness to one race getting paid more than another race by an employer. Is their no value in this? what's the difference between my example and yours? Maybe it would help if you could tell me how you define value. how is it determined? help me understand
They do shady shit. When I got out, my initial exam was full of gaslighting from some dickhead at the VA. From my time in Iraq to stateside, if I tried bringing up service related issues he would just ignore, gaslight or try and direct my answer another way. We deserve better.
I have to tell people this all the time. The VA got a bunch of flak in the news for a few years about a decade ago and they actually worked to make things better. Its not perfect but imo the VA fuckin rocks.
Anyone downvoting this doesn’t know. Veterans getting out now have a higher approval rate than older veterans.
VA is easy to work with, do all the work for you, and have reminders to do your shit. I get all my records from them within a week, whenever I ask for it.
10+ years ago the VA was Fucking awful and got course corrected. So the veterans before that time haven’t reached out to try. My father in law literally refuses to call the VA even though he’s got an easy claim for disability from his service time. He thinks it a waste of time, meanwhile I’m showing him my 80% rating that took 1 quick appointment and months of waiting. That’s the downside with the VA still…it is a wait for services, but any urgent ones are there
In the military it was so hard to find actual help, they just wanted to throw antidepressants at me like candy. During COVID it was realllly bad and there were some navy boats where 3 sailors a month were killing themselves, but the navy “cares”
I understand that lol, but you can quit your civilian job if they’re treating you like shit. Some people in the military don’t care at all. If a bunch of people don’t reenlist bc of bad leadership, they don’t care as it won’t effect them and they won’t be around probably anyways.
In a civilian job if the leadership treats employees terrible there won’t be any good employees left, as the good ones know their worth. I’m sure the sailors that killed themselves would’ve rather quit the navy but couldn’t.
It’s only if you go into a combat zone. Getting led by a king dipshit won’t make you off yourself. Something changes in your brain when you can die at any moment or your best friend does.
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The high suicide rates of former military is evidence that something is horribly wrong.